American Chinese

American Chinese may refer to:

  • Sino-American relations, the relations between mainland China and the United States
  • Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent
    • American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category
    • Chinese American cuisine, Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese immigrants to the United States
  • Americans in China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:
    • Ma Haide (George Hatem) (1910–1988), formerly George Hatem, a doctor and public health official
    • Joan Hinton (a former nuclear physicist) and her husband Erwin Engst, who worked in agriculture near Beijing and made significant contributions to the dairy industry
    • Sidney Rittenberg, an interpreter, scholar, and former member of the Communist Party of China, who eventually returned to the United States
    • Sidney Shapiro, translator of the Chinese classic Water Margin
  • Persons of mixed "American" (usually meaning White American) and Chinese descent; see:
    • Eurasian (mixed ancestry), people of mixed Asian and European ancestry
    • Amerasian

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or chinese:

    Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?
    Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)